Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

The reason I don't really find The Last of Us interesting is because it feels like a genuine movie with some bits of gameplay here and there. What I want from a story driven game is a game that can be cinematic, whilst also having a heavy focus on the gameplay itself. Something like how Final Fantasy XVI does, where it's cinematic at the times which it needs to be, but also is a genuine game through and through.

Edit: I love games that make me feel some sort of emotion. It's rare for it to happen, but when a story really resonates with me, it becomes one of my favorite games. NieR was one of the few games that genuinely made my heart break into pieces, and the story of that game influenced my own storytelling.

I generally don't care how a game does storytelling as long as its like...good storytelling. If you put a good movie in the middle of my video game then its still good, so...ok. Maybe not the most natural way to tell a story in a game but good is good.

Games that waste my time with its story can go away though. Like whenever I try to be invested or entertained by long cutscenes and its just boring...why did you bother then? Cut it out and let me play the game. My go to game for this is Vanquish. A game I would've liked more (if not particularly loved) if I skipped all the cutscenes, which is probably like 1/6 of the total time of the main campaign. And hot take, a good chunk of Bayonetta 2's story is also actively worse than just ignoring it, and no amount of "oh how over the top and crazy" makes it actually as fun as it is trying to be half the time. Metal Gear Rising and Wonderful 101 are actually really fun stories for what they are, so it especially stands out compared to those (let alone something like Nier: Automata). I tried to watch the story they told and I wish I didn't sometimes, so maybe they shouldn't have bothered if I would've had a better time if I had skipped cutscenes.

Similar potentially hot take: Age of Calamity slowly lost me too in terms of story (and it started at a "its alright"), despite my best efforts, and the weird retcon it does to not actually tie into BOTW is only part of the problem. I don't get the hype for much of Zelda cutscenes in this era in general, Zelda's done way better storytelling and the best storytelling in BOTW was generally the environmental storytelling. And the English voice acting is still too mid for a series this popular (though ask me again when I'm done with TOTK).

I Think The NES Is Really Bad And The Game Selection Is Poor, Aside From Kid Icarus, Mario 3, And Duck Hunt.

@EaglyBird I agree, also this year is indeed very good regarding games.

I mean, it's old. At the time I think NES was pretty universally considered incredibly amazing. So I would say dated rather than 'bad'. Mario 1 for example hasn't stood up to time nearly as well as Mario 3; it's still a classic, but not necessarily something most people want to actually play any more than most people want to watch really good but ancient and grainy black and white movies.

I have an unpopular opinion that goes against yours actually, Battletoads is not a very good game imo.

@Themagusx1 I Agree, The Game Is Fine

@OreoTheSprigatito you agree or disagree?

Here's one. The original nes gamepad is one of my absolute favorite controllers.

@Themagusx1 I Agree, I Don't Why I Put That On My Original Post

@OreoTheSprigatito Gotcha. Yeah I think Battletoads is badly designed to be honest.

There's A Copy Of Yoshi Topsy Turvy At My Local Game Store, Should I Pick It Up?

I disagree if taken with this game selection as is, but this does in fact sum up the average quality of NES games vs. the vast majority, which are mid at best.

Honestly, I'm really glad we're past the point where 8-bit NES nostalgia is so frequent. I dunno if its just because its been done to death to the point that even most indie games don't rely on it anymore, or if we're all just sick of 80s nostalgia, which has dominated longer than the 80s itself existed. There was plenty to it, but there's so much other retro game nostalgia that's worth people's time that when it always coming back to NES and 8-bit over anything else it felt kind of obnoxious by the time the NES Classic came out. Honestly I think maybe NSO was the turning point, when everyone realized they now had to pay for online and all they were getting were some NES games (at first).

I partially agree but feel the reason is kind of the opposite. Most people pay a little bit for online access, cloud backup, etc. and get close to 100 NES games thrown in. Whenever you have nes nostalgia, just play one of those 100 games.. you don't really need more very often because that urge has been satisfied. That said, new 8-bit nostalgia games are still relatively common in the thousands of eShop games constantly pumped out, as are 16-bit nostalgia games and even (shudder) ugly-polygon-early-3D nostalgia. When there are 10,000 games on Switch, it's pretty easy to notice or ignore whatever style you want.

Neither botw or totk are good games for me.
I prefer Yonder the Cloud Catcher Chronicles over than those two Zelda games.

I think NSO is a good service.

Why? Well in the $20/year tier alone, you get

• Tetris 99
  Kirby Clash
  Random free collectibles in ACNH/Smash
  NES Game Catalogue
  SNES Game Catalogue
  GB/GBC Game Catalogue
  PAC-MAN 99
  (formerly) Super Mario Bros. 35 (BRING THIS BACK NINTENDO!)
  Online Multiplayer
  Cloud Saves
  Game Trials
  Customizable User Icons
  Practically Free Platinum Points to spend on ^^^ or myNintendo physical merch
  and probably a few more things I’m forgetting
  And that’s just the $20 tier, for $1.67/month.

Compare that to the $80 PS Plus Essential tier, you get:

• 2-3 shovelware or OK games per month (I will admit you sometimes get a banger like Dreams but still, it’s rare)
• Cloud Saves
• Exclusive Sales (which usually aren’t discounted all too significant + don’t happen often for AAA games)
• Online
• SharePlay

See the difference?

The most common complaint I see about NSO is “the online is bad” which is a fine complaint on paper but there are multiple factors to this
1. Have you only played 1 or 2 games? It could be just an issue with that game.
2. Maybe your internet isn’t that good?
I have average internet and I experience relatively good online 90% of the time, around the same success rate I have with PS Plus, so I think it really just comes down to your Wi-Fi itself.

Overall I can understand and respect if you don’t like NSO, but I personally think it’s really solid

@DiamondCore
I subscribed NSO for $20 just only to use Online Play feature and Cloud Saves.
I don't even care with Retro NES, SNES, SEGA, Gameboy games that basically rental service for 1 year.
I have to renew my NSO subscription before 28 September 2023 but Dang...
I still have to buy some PS5 and Switch games for October 2023.

@DiamondCore Sure is better then the ***t Sony is pulling right now.

I'm really sorry have to say this but...
I have no longer interest to watch Nintendo Direct as I can read the pattern of the games released so I can always watch the separated trailers to check which games I only have interest about without watching a whole Direct that filled with a lot of games I have no interest about.

Your list is less impressive when it includes Mario 35 which is gone and PACMAN 99 which is leaving in a month. 🤪

That said, I subscribed to NSO for online play and cloud saves so the rest is just nice. Realistically, if they had sold retro collections and Tetris 99 separately instead of including on NSO I probably would have bought Tetris 99 for $40 and 4 retro nes/snes/GB collections for $20 each, so that's the price of 6 years of NSO there. Plus they used to have the first year of NSO free with some online games.

One big thing you are missing from the list - vouchers. This year, there were so many good games that after Mario I will have bought 4 day-1 Nintendo games. I buy digitally, so that is 2 pairs of vouchers saving me $40. Saving $40 in one year is a good deal for a $20 service. I don't buy too many games at full price, but I can easily see myself saving at least $20 with those next year also.

As for complaints about online, Nintendo is super inconsistent with online quality. I find multiplayer in e.g. Mario Kart 8, very good. But then there are things like multiplayer in Mario Maker 2 which even the Internet from 1999 would have found atrocious - so yes, it's only bad with some games, but those some games include some of the main Nintendo games with online.